Britain's House of Lords is a second chamber made of compromise. We as a nation understand the value of a second chamber: it is essential for governmental checks and balances, for debate, and so that the government of the country cannot be swayed by current moods in electoral politics blinding us to widespread issues or... Continue Reading →
Protected: Why aren’t people leaving America?
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Come In From The Cold: A History of My Relationship With Christmas
What changed me from hating Christmas to being a celebrant? Why did I hate Christmas in the first place? How can you act to make the festive season as joyful for those around you as it is for yourself?
Protected: There is no morality, only varying standards.
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Can Convenience Become My Wife?
An at-home labourer is essential for having enough time to balance work and hobbies: eating well, exercising, living in a clean home.
A Birkbeck Story
I had to write an essay because I was taught too well not to.
Protected: Buchenwald.
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What Do I Want
There is a difference between ambitions, these things that we strive for and work to make happen, and wanting something to be our own or to be different. We know the difference between need vs want, but do we need to learn the difference between want and desire?
What is a good education?
1) Contact time isn’t what defines your degree as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 2) Neither is the subject you study. 3) Neither is the institution in which you study. 4) Student loans are not sufficient for either the institution or the individual. 5) Education should only be for those who ‘deserve’ it (replace deserve with whichever word you like, they’re all there in the comments). 6) This is a crisis that is not only affecting the young and the middle-classes. 7) European degrees, or having the army pay for your degree, are not solutions. 8) We cannot institute the policy of ‘paying’ people for attainment in their degree by giving people with 1st class degrees a discount.
Celebrities with single names: an academic analysis.
We as a society often hold up celebrities with a single name as the epitome of success as they are evoked as an individual by so little, showing how transcendent they are, but perhaps we are overlooking the inherent paternalistic and racist subtleties of denying a person their full name in the media?
Late Romantic 